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This is a weird problem, I write a lot of different languages on my computer, and since my keyboard doesn't have all the keys in the world, I have made certain key-combinations that replaces them with ...

Is it possible to create a file of autocorrect entries for iOS devices and deploy it to all my company iPads (8 of them right now)? There are about 150 autocorrect entries that we'd like to setup on ...

I've added some words that are not in the standard Apple dictionary in Pages 5.5 via the 'learn'/'ignore spelling' function.
Is there any way where I can see a comprehensive list of the words that I ...

In iOS 7, one could train spellcheck to recognize acronyms by, e.g., typing 'My Story (MS)' so that when you subsequently typed 'ms' it would appear as 'MS'. This no longer works -- or, at best, works ...

I often write documents and emails in both English (UK) and Scottish Gaelic languages.
I have installed a third-party aff/dic dictionary for Scottish Gaelic as Apple do not have a native dictionary ...

I've just done a clean install of Yosemite, and in practically all of my apps I'm noticing those red underlines whenever I've "misspelled" something (or, more accurately, used an unrecognized name, ...

I welcome popup spelling suggestions, but I dislike the OS replacing text as I type without any real confirmation from me.
I'm aware both behaviors can be enabled/disabled together as one option in ...

I have a NeoOffice Text document with various section headings that contain non-word text (think acronyms or command line options) which get flagged as mis-spelled. Within the body of the document I ...

I switched off spell-correct in SysPref > Keyboard > Text, but Numbers 3.2 continues not only to suggest corrections, but - when I decline the suggestion by hitting ESC - to replace my text with its ...

I know, you can disable automatic Spell checking for the entire document (Edit->Spelling and Grammar->Check Spelling While Typing) but I want to disable it just for the text in that specific text box ...

Running 10.9.2, I have gone in to SysPrefs and made sure Keyboard>Text is set to NOT auto-correct, I have gone to Mail Prefs and made sure spell checking is done after I finish, but no matter what I ...

I would like to have a way to dynamically add and remove words from the system-wide dictionary in Mountain Lion. The use-case is:
I'm working on a piece of fiction that has a lot of odd names in it ...

Question in title. Is it possible at all with Sublime Text 3?
Now I can download different spellcheck packages or use the built-in ST spellchecker. However, I would like to use the Mac OS spellchecker ...

How can I manually select the language of Auto Correct for a block of text in apps like Notes and Mail?
I want to write a text that contains both English and German sentences. I have found a solution ...

iOS tracks everything you type and uses those words to suggest spelling corrections. This list of words used to be a clear text list buried in /private or /System (I don't remember where, which is my ...

I'm in Canada, and I use my mac to write documents in both English and French. Generally, I find that the built-in spellchecker (on 10.7.4) does a great job of automatically detecting which language ...

Typing adsfsadf on this edit box now... and there is no spell checking. But in the context menu spell checking is activated, and the correct language is selected. The same issue exists on about 90% of ...

I set my input source to be US English. And the flag showing on the taskbar is also an American flag.
But whenever I type something in Mail.app or Notes.app the spell check still corrects my spelling ...

There are many times when I curse the autocorrection mechanism for changing what I typed, but overall, much of the corrections are welcome so I don't really want to disable it. I do want to have it do ...

Basically, is there any way to trigger the native OS X spellcheck context menu using a keyboard shortcut. I know the command keys ⌘+: activates spellcheck, but what I'm trying to do is get the result ...

I'm new to Pages (from iWork) and have troubles with the spell-check function. It's simply not working for me.
Almost everything is underlined red. No matter what language I write in. I did not write ...

Right now i am using Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 (on my macbook pro). I am doing a project on Hispania (an old Roman province) which today is currently Spain. My spell check has switched languages to ...

I am looking for an easy way to install spell-check dictionaries for languages that are not supported by default on OS X (one example Romanian).
By easy way, I mean a solution that does not require ...